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Medina County, TX

214 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 60.3% rated Good, 37.9% Fair, 1.9% Poor.

214
Public bridges: 60.3%
Good condition: 1.9%
Poor condition

The verdict

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.

Medina County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

173rd
of 247 on Poor share: 1.9%
Poor-condition share: 214
public highway bridges: 1972
avg year built

Poor is an FHWA condition category from the lowest applicable component rating (4 or below), not a live crossing-safety or closure decision. Rankings cover counties with at least five public highway bridges.

Medina County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Medina County ranks #173 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.9%). Medina County, Texas contains 214 public highway bridges. Roughly 60.3% are rated “Good,” 37.9% “Fair,” and 1.9% “Poor.” Poor means the lowest applicable deck, superstructure, substructure, or culvert rating is 4 or below on the 0–9 NBI scale. It is a condition category, not a live safety or closure decision.

Responsible agencies inspect covered bridges on risk-based intervals under current NBIS rules and submit inventory data to FHWA annually. The list below shows every NBI-tracked bridge in the county. Use the “Sort by” controls to change the ordering, and click any row for its reported inspection date, traffic count, and condition fields.

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory. See methodology for full definitions.

Total bridges

214

Public highway bridges in Medina County

Good condition

60.3%

129 of 214 rated 7-9

Fair condition

37.9%

81 of 214 rated 5-6

Poor condition

1.9%

4 of 214 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#173 of 247

Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 214 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

60.3% (129)

Fair

37.9% (81)

Poor

1.9% (4)

Medina County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,455 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.9% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 364 crossings a day against 4,289 for a Good-condition one. A Poor rating is a condition category, not a closure or a live safety judgement; it means the lowest applicable component rating is 4 or below.

Computed over the 214 of 214 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

54.2% of Medina County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

116 of the 214 bridges with a recorded construction year were built in 1974 or earlier. Age alone is not a defect: a well-maintained older bridge can rate Good, and 60.3% of this county's inventory does. Even so, this older cohort is the population from which future Poor ratings are drawn, which is why the age profile below matters alongside the condition split above.

Cutoff derives from the 2024 release year minus a 50-year design life. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

One structure carries 39.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

CR 6715 over CHACON CREEK, built 1994, carries 575 vehicles a day, the most of any Poor-rated structure here. The county's Poor-condition exposure is concentrated rather than evenly spread, so the 4-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 1,455 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

16
1930s

17
1940s

19
1950s

16
1960s

39
1970s

15
1980s

24
1990s

30
2000s

25
2010s

9
2020s

4

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 39 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 18.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1972, 8 years older than the Texas average of 1980.

How Medina County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Texas counties nearest Medina County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.9% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1972 against a peer-group mean of 1976 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Medina County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Henderson County	216	43.1%	56.5%	0.5%	1978
Austin County	214	63.1%	34.1%	2.8%	1992
Gregg County	214	37.9%	62.1%	0%	1972
Medina County (this page)	214	60.3%	37.9%	1.9%	1972
Reeves County	213	52.6%	45.5%	1.9%	1966
Comanche County	212	45.3%	52.8%	1.9%	1974

Each share is of that county's own total tracked bridges; peers are the counties with 5 or more bridges whose inventory size is closest to Medina County's. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Two NBI-derived peer sets for Medina County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (214 bridges here).

Lee County, AL · 214 bridges
White County, IL · 214 bridges
White County, IN · 214 bridges
Lee County, IA · 214 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1972 here).

Santa Clara County, CA · avg 1972 · 964 bridges
Madison County, AL · avg 1972 · 710 bridges
Kern County, CA · avg 1972 · 668 bridges
York County, PA · avg 1972 · 569 bridges

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.

All 214 Good 129 Fair 81 Poor 4

All bridges (214)

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Medina County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Medina County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,455 vehicle crossings a day

54.2% of Medina County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 39.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Medina County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

All bridges (214)

FM 2200

FM 2200

FM 2200

FM 2200

FM 462

FM 462

FM 462

FM 462

FM 462

FM 462

FM 471

FM 471

PR 37

FM 1343

FM 1343

FM 1343

FM 471

FM 471

FM 2200

FM 2676

FM 2676

FM 2676

FM 2676

FM 2676

FM 2790

FM 2790

CR 511

CR 511

CR 772

CASTRO AVE

18TH ST

SH 173

FM 471

FM 471

FM 471

FM 463

FM 463

FM 2676

FM 1250

FM 462

FM 462

FM 471

FM 471

SH 132

CR 6713

US 90 EB ML

US 90 WB ML

US 90

SH 173 NB

US 90 WB ENTR RAMP

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